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A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and…
A second true defence of the mere nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease public worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.A second true defence of the meer nonconformists against the untrue accusations, reasonings, and history of Dr. Edward Stillingfleet ... clearly proving that it is (not sin but) duty 1. not wilfully to commit the many sins of conformity, 2. not sacrilegiously to forsake the preaching of the Gospel, 3. not to cease publick worshipping of God, 4. to use needful pastoral helps for salvation ... / written by Richard Baxter ... ; with some notes on Mr. Joseph Glanviles Zealous and impartial Protestant, and Dr. L. Moulins character.
London: printed for Nevil Simons, 1681
AN ANSWER TO Dean STILINGFLEETS, &c. › Chapter 8: What the National Church of England is?
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Answ. I am one, and I cannot see it, nor so much as see how to know the Church it self, nor who is a Member of it, nor how any man can know it: but he seems to me to make it a Church invisible. But I see the Dissenters must be none of it.
1. How was the Church of England known from Papists, in the beginning of H. 8. or in the middle, or in the end? or how known when it began?
How was it known in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths days, when the Papists came to Church? or now as to Church-Papists? How shall we know to which Church the late Bishop Bramhall and other Doctors belong, who would have the Pope Govern▪ us according to the Canons as Patriarch of the West, & principium unitatatis universalis, and all go for Schismatics that deny it. Some call this the New-Church of England, differing from the old one which was before Bishop Laud.
How was it known in the beginning of Queen Elizabeths days, when the Papists came to Church? or now as to Church-Papists? How shall we know to which Church the late Bishop Bramhall and other Doctors belong, who would have the Pope Govern▪ us according to the Canons as Patriarch of the West, & principium unitatatis universalis, and all go for Schismaticks that deny it. Some call this the New-Church of England, differing from the old one which was before Bishop Laud.